SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 881

ACROSS '1 Marine engines in the tool-box (12).

9 It keeps its distance and isn't seen in company (9).

10 Thirty points of animosity (5).

11 Shortly Valentine will get round the donkey (6).

32 Ten tears (anag.) (8).

13 News of noise (6).

15 I'm in a relapse when turning (8).

18 'Precious -, thou art mine!' (Burton) (8) 19 Closed shop? Just be quiet! (4, 2) 21 Letters of the Cornish saint's daughter (8).

23 Dickensian family two gallons short (6).

26 Miss Grey who became Mrs. Weston (5).

27 NCO likely to stab a sailor (5, 4).

28 Percy's not Tim (anag.) (12). DOWN 1 Weller takes nothing to a French department for tea (7).

2 'If she - him, never shows she -' (Pope) (5).

3 Sheridan's Bob looks sagacious like this (9).

4 Feathered cornered castle (4): 5 Vine seen in Austria (8).

6 'Scarfs, garters, gold amuse his - stage' (Pope) (5).

7 This is where the crocks hang out (7).

8 Suitable medium for the painter of seascapes (8).

14 ltys in feathers (8).

16 A hen emu at the literary institution (9).

17 Butler's Presbyterian (4, 4).

18 Several wearing a small Scots cap of sinister repute (7).

20 Author anxious to advance the family (7).

22 It occurs in Ruskin's Ethics of the Dust (5).

24 The coin sounds honest enough (5).

25 ' "Sap and sawdust," said the (Carroll) (4).

Two prizes will be awarded: a copy of the Do Luxe edition of Chamberes Twentieth Century Dictionary and a book token for one guinea. They wilt be awarded to the senders of the first two correct solutions opened after noun on April 1U urd addressed: Crossword No. 881, 99 Gower St., London, WC1

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary, New Version, is recommended Jot Crosswords.